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MeeGo 1.2 Boots Nearly Twice As Fast As Fedora, Ubuntu

05-21-2011, 02:50 PM

Phoronix: MeeGo 1.2 Boots Nearly Twice As Fast As Fedora, Ubuntu

Prior to being spun into MeeGo, Intel's Moblin Linux distribution was one of the fastest-booting Linux distributions. Moblin worked phenomenally for Intel Atom netbooks with a great user-interface and was very quick at starting up. With the release this week of MeeGo 1.2, we have some Bootchart numbers for MeeGo 1.2 Netbook UX compared to Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 11.04...

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Who really cares about bootup time anyway? Unless you are just constantly rebooting your computer...

Bootup time is really just a Pissing contest.

I guess netbook users would be more likely to shut down a device when not in use, or when travelling, although they might use sleep as well. The boot time is useless for desktop users but that's not really the target...